The Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST) is organizing the PRIMA Collaborate Event, which is aimed at uniting med researchers in Malta for innovation. The event will take place on 8 and 9 February 2024 at the Esplora Science Centre.
Follow this link to register online/in person for the event, the full agenda can be accessed from this link.
The Maltese partner in the Mara-Mediterra Consortium, IRMCo, has been invited to present the PRIMA funded Mara-Mediterra project in the session ‘PRIMA projects – successful stories’.
IRMCo seized the opportunity to organize the UNIMED Second Community of Practice Workshop in conjunction with the PRIMA Collaborate Event. The UNIMED research in Malta is being led by IRMCo, in collaboration with the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST). The Turkish partner in UNIMED, DEU DESUM, will be joining in both events.
Mara-Mediterra and UNIMED continue to enjoy an excellent synergy. The ‘UNIfied framework to cope with droughts under MEDiterranean climate change conditions’, UNIMED, is aimed at the methodological development of a Survivability-of-Droughts Index in the context of the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem (WEFE) Nexus. This is a novel idea which derives from the quantification of four underlying indices: perception, vulnerability, adaptability and recoverability.
UNIMED’s First Community of Practice Workshop which took place on 7 July 2023, resulted in the enlargement of an originally foreseen set of economic, social and environmental indicators in a participatory manner. The enlarged set has since been checked against data availability in both Malta and Turkey and the resulting, ‘best available’ dataset will be presented during this follow-up event. Participants will be invited to assist us in reaching sound policy recommendations in the context of coping with droughts. Recently implemented, still in the pipeline initiatives or projects will be scrutinized against their level of effectiveness as well as their cost-effectiveness. Possible synergies between these initiatives or projects will also be explored.
The UNIMED project is financed by the Malta Council for Science and Technology trough the MCST-TÜBİTAK Joint Call 2022 for R&I Proposals.
We are looking forward to meet up with you as well!
